Ninjas

[PathfinderAP]

I've done a significant amount of research on the ninja clans while in university. Wrote some high-level things on them. I've found the most accurate (free) site for ninja information to be on the site below. It has some excellent history, eyewitness accounts and explains some of the abilities and possible sources.

http://www.realultimatepower.net/

Due to a lack of coverage on either Chuck Norris or Vin Diesel at that site I doubt the validity of such information,

And what about the Power Rangers? hu? everyone knows they are ninja,
yet, nothing,

Bogus site man, BOOoogus site

 

[Altoman5]

I'm thinking of introducing a "ninja" type charactor.

Now the thing is, it is pretty well impossible to come up with historical examples of the "black clad assasins" of the movies. Historically "ninja" were samurai who performed what we would now call special forces rolls.

However I want the movie type.

Pseudo religious secret societies training assasins from an early age.

The player would be presented with a charactor with all the combat / spy type skills he could wish for. The catch is he can't return to his original temple for some reason & is trying to locate another. So he's signed on as a steward 3rd class (tea boy) & cannot let anyone know his true identity. If someone does find out he will have to kill either them or himself.

So what does he do when the brown & sticky hits the fan? Let his crew mates die or flip out and try to explain how he managed to take out half a dozen imperial marines armed only with a tea spoon?

How would the economics of such a society work? where would you hide the "temple" A deserted planetoid or on the fringes of a community?

Kudos for you if you want to play the ninja. You could probably have your character leaving the temple because it was destroyed by enemy ninjas and you have to find their temple. You would have to be careful in flipping out otherwise the game would be over so quickly. You can probably gain friends, enemies along the way. Suppose you end up loving someone and knows who you are. Do you kill her or do you dump her and run off to another sector? You could probably can get hired like a mercenary and assassinate people, good or bad. Try to flesh out your character, cause even cold-blooded people can have doubts and feelings.

That's my two cents.

 

[Straybow]

I could tell you what I do, but then I'd have to kill you.

 

[Mithras]

No, real research!

How Stuff Works does not count.

But abomination is right, the ninja were used as a covert adjunct to the samurai, who were bound by honour to fight to strict rules of war. The ninja were a mercenary group (groups) hired and co-erced to carry out the special forces-type missions the traditional warriors could not do. Its more complicated than that, but that is the essential economic and social niche occupied by these clans.

Its all in my best selling book: Warrior Cults!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warrior-Cul...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247764021&sr=1-1